Information About Incident 21330-36007-81548 in Firozpur India

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Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Majitha, Vibhu Raj, said "The human bomb Tarsem Singh belongs to BKI and was going to assassinate Ashutosh Maharaj but we arrested him at village Butala."

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• Meta Location: Majitha
• Matched District: Firozpur
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: we
• Subject: him

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According to Hindustan Times, the police arrested a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist who was going to be used as a 'human bomb' to assassinate Ashutosh Maharaj, the head of a religious sect (Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan), in the Amritsar district of Punjab. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Majitha, Vibhu Raj, said "The human bomb Tarsem Singh belongs to BKI and was going to assassinate Ashutosh Maharaj but we arrested him at village Butala." The SSP added: "Singh was arrested on June 25 with sophisticated electronic devices found wrapped around his waist, besides hand-grenade, 550 live cartridges of AK-47, detonators and bottle bombs."

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